Search Results: Titles starting with A from Nighttown Books

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1936 First Printing of the American First Edition in blue-stamped yellow cloth, Review Copy with the publisher's slip tacked to the front endpaper, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, no foxing, boards show light wear & quiet soil with light staining front panel at top spine fold, slight rubbed wear to cloth at spine extremities, spine ends softened & corners slightly rounded, name to endpaper edge, else clean tight very nice advanced copy of one of Christie's scarcest 1930s titles; 8vo; 306pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Review Copy.

Random House, 2009 Hardcover 1st Ed 4th Printing in unclipped dust jacket SIGNED by author Ron White direct to title page with personalized inscription to friends "Barby and Julian", no markings, small bumped tear top front panel edge, else clean tight copy (dj in mylar protector); lg thick 8vo; 796pp indexed & illus. Due to its size and/or weight, overseas delivery of this book may REQUIRE an additional shipping charge beyond our default rates. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Random House, 2009 Hardcover 1st Ed 6th Printing in unclipped dust jacket AS NEW SIGNED by author Ron White direct to title page with personalized inscription ("To Nancy"), no markings, no defects, a pristine unread signed early printing of the First Edition (dj in mylar protector) [28301]. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Cambridge University Press, 2010 Softcover 1st Printing in illustrated wraps BRAND NEW, no remainder mark, pristine new copy; 8vo; 378pp indexed & illus. First Edition. Soft Cover. New.

Redline Books, 2002 First Printing in photo-illustrated wraps AS NEW, no markings, NOT ex-lib, bright tight unread copy; sq 8vo; 223pp indexed & illus. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New.

Princeton University Press, 1979 First Printing of the fully revised and updated Second Edition in dust jacket, no markings, NOT ex-lib, moisture staining to boards lower front panel affecting inside of dust jacket & front pastedown and creating slight ripple to lower page edges of first 50 pages (contents completely unaffected), pages bright binding tight, a clean tight nice copy of the scarce hardcover with flaws as noted (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; (xx) 285pp indexed + 31 plate illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Humanities Press, 1939 New Impression in price-clipped dust jacket, no markings, NOT ex-lib, jacket soiled & chipped at all edges with some loss, old inked price to jacket flap, else clean tight copy; 8vo; (xxxi) 294pp indexed & illus. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Good.

New York: Random House, 1965 First Edition, preceding the English, in original $3.00-priced dust jacket, no markings, NOT ex-lib, blue-greeen topstain, brown papered boards with gilt-stamped black cloth shelfback are sharp-cornered & immaculate, jacket shows trace wear to spine & corner tips & is a touch darkened at the spine, else Fine (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; [x] 84pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Univ of Minnesota Press, 1997 Softcover 1st Printing in new condition, no remainder or text markings, no creases, small blindstamp of art historian Eunice Howe to endpaper corner, else Fine; 8vo; 204pp indexed. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927 First Printing in full black cloth with paper spine and front panel title labels, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright & unfoxed, a few small dents to front board edges with quiet impression marks front panel, slight fade to spine label (titles clear & legible), else clean tight First Edition copy of this landmark early title in the history of science fiction; 8vo; (vii) 242pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Random House, 1972 First American Edition (stated) First Printing in original $5.00-priced dust jacket, Review Copy with review slip tacked to front pastedown, no markings, dj shows wear at tips & two closed tears rear panel edge, slight fade to spine, else Fine (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Review Copy.

Lindsay Publications, 1992 First Printing (full # line) of this reissue (of Pratt & Whitney publication first published in 1930) BRAND NEW, no remainder mark, pristine new copy; 8vo; 118pp illus. First Edition. Soft Cover. New.

Easton Press, 1990 Easton Press Collector's Edition in gilt-stamped & decorated full navy leather with gilt and light blue decorations and 3 raised spine hubs, 1st Printing Thus in the nicely decorated binding (rather than the uniform brown later bindings), moire fabric endsheets, satin ribbon marker bound-in, all page edges gilt, Easton Hemingway bookplate to first white page, else as new; 8vo; [xii] 308pp illus. First Edition. Full-Leather. As New.

Donaldsonville, LA: Sidney A. Marchand, 1949 Extremely scarce original hardcover 1st Ed of this New Orleans history of Ascension and Donaldsonville Parishes, SIGNED by author with personalized inscription to title page, book is solid with clean unmarked pages & tight binding, corners & ends are bumped, soil to panels & rear endpapers, else very good (no dj, as issued). Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Churchill Livingstone, 1993 Hardcover 2nd Ed as new, no markings, bright tight unread copy; lg 8vo; 347pp indexed & illus. Hard Cover. New.

Belknap / Harvard Univ Press, 1963 Hardcover 1st Printing set in price-clipped dust jackets, EX-LIBRARY with very minimal library markings (a few small stamps & neat pocket removal from rear pastedown), no text markings, jackets show only minor wear & signs of age and are not affixed to books (now in mylar protectors); 2 4tos: lxvi + 424pp & xxiv + 490pp indexed. Extra shipping charge REQUIRED for shipment of this heavy set (additional charge WILL BE SUBSTANTIAL for overseas shipment). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine.

Christy Walsh, 1937 Rare First Edition of this legendary sports book written by the famed journalist, cartoonist and pioneer sports agent, Christy Walsh, and SIGNED by him with personalized inscription to equally legendary football coach Howard Jones with a color cartoon of him to the front endpaper in football regalia and the names of the various teams to his jersey; Walsh was a close personal friend and promoter of Babe Ruth & was his incipient "sports agent", as well as the later agent of Lou Gehrig, Dizzy Dean, Ty Cobb & many others; he founded the Christy Walsh Syndicate of sports "ghostwriters" that included Ford Frick, Damon Runyon and Gene Fowler; Jones of course, was most famously associated with his last coaching position, USC, where he was undefeated in 5 Rose Bowl appearances; he was also a first ballot inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in its inaugural year (1951); light shelf wear & quiet soil to the red cloth boards decorated with… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914 Elaborate gilt-tooled & decorated red cloth boards with all 20 tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards present & perfect, only slight shelf & edge wear with the very beginnings of fraying to spine top, page block edges show a little quiet soil & staining, binding & hinges tight pages bright & unfoxed, neat name to pastedown edge, no other markings, a clean tight near-exemplary copy with all the wonderful Hugh Tomson illustrations; 4to; (viii) 235pp illus. Extra shipping charge REQUIRED for shipment of this heavy oversize book (additional charge WILL BE SUBSTANTIAL for expedited or overseas shipment). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+.

Blackwell, 2000 Softcover 1st Printing (full # line), no text markings, minor shelf wear with bump to top corner, neat name to endpaper edge, else clean tight copy; 8vo; ix + 368pp indexed. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+.

Gulf Pub Co, 1990 Softcover 4th Ed, nice shape, no spine creases, highlights to first 20 pages, corner bump w/crease, else as new; 8vo; 292pp indexed. Soft Cover. Very Good.